Critical incident video released of an officer-involved shooting in Bonsall

Critical incident video of the shooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmvGmglhBew

San Diego police filed charges at 11:26 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, when Patrick Lowell was released from the hospital and booked into the Vista Detention Center.

Patrick Wendell Lowell, 66, was shot and injured by sheriff’s deputies in Bonsall on May 4 after several public calls expressing concern that someone was walking with weapons on Mission Road/SR 76.

After refusing to drop his weapons last Saturday, May 2, two Vista sheriff’s deputies fired their firearms, striking Lowell in the legs and lower abdomen. They rendered aid and paramedics transported him to Palomar Hospital.

Lowell was charged May 8 with displaying a firearm/resisting arrest, assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer and enforcing an existing warrant. It was reported that the weapon recovered from the scene was a Glock replica BB gun.

Per policy, the San Diego Police Department, Homicide, has taken over the investigation since the incident involving the San Diego Sheriff’s Department.